This is a preemptive plea for people who last wrote PHP in 2012 not to opine on what writing PHP is like in 2025. It is not a hammer with two claws. It’s a modern language with types and tooling and package management.
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I have recently had to delve in PHP and it was much better and more mature than what people painted it to be 10+ years ago.
A night and day difference.
Jira gave me the same experience. I hated it remembering the 2020 times, yet going back to it now...I actually liked it way more than the alternatives.